623 p. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-592) and index

Foreword / Howard Zinn -- Preface: History in the Present Tense -- Mare Nostrum, Mare Claustrum -- The United States: The Dawning of a New Empire -- "The Pearl of the Antilles" -- The Neighbors -- The Party's Over -- Some Come, Some Go -- Cuba: The Triumph of the Revolution -- The Rise and Fall of the Caudillo Batista -- The Struggle -- Batista's Flight -- The Rebels Arrive -- Eisenhower and the Rebels -- Fidel Facing the Americas -- The Caribbean in Flames -- The Conflict -- The First Declaration of Havana -- The Party's Over -- The Turbulent 1960s -- The United States: The World and Cuba's Challenge -- "Together Let Us Explore the Stars" -- Upheavals in the Communist World -- John XXIII, Pontiff of the Poor -- The Unstable International Arena -- Tensions Between the Giants -- The "Balance of Terror" -- The Cuban Revolution Breaks Out -- The Kennedy Era -- The Hemispheric Alliance -- What's Happening in Cuba? -- The Bay of Pigs -- "Getting Rid" of Fidel -- OAS: The "Colonial Ministry" -- The October Crisis -- The Crisis from a Distance -- The Price of the Crisis -- Are Kennedy's Policies Failing? -- A Light is Extinguished -- The Deaths of Three Giants -- Johnson in the White House -- "Mississippi Burning" -- The "Big Stick" Once Again -- Is the Alliance Dead? -- What's Happening in Cuba? -- Johnson's Autumn -- The Party's Over -- "The Backyard" -- The United States and Central America -- The "Banana Republics" -- Honduras and the "Octopuses" -- Villeda, a Breath of Democracy -- Retreat -- El Salvador, Crucible of Conflict -- "Ever Since That Cursed Year ..." -- Armed Struggle -- The Voice of the Monsignor -- The Trail of Violence -- At the Stake -- Somoza's Nicaragua -- The Sandinistas -- The Triumph -- Guatemala and Its Violence -- The Big Farce -- The First Guerrillas -- Violence and "Pacification" -- The Party's Over -- With Weapons in Hand -- Revolutions in the Continent -- Che -- Militarism Rising -- Argentina: Open Fire -- Ongania's "Tyranny Lite" -- The Montoneros, the ERP, and the Church -- Brazil and its "Gorillas" -- The Insurgency -- The Liberation Church -- Uruguay: A Mock Democracy -- Che Showed Us the Way -- Colombia: Democracy and Violence -- Colombia and Cuba -- Valencia's "Pacification" Policy -- The End of the 1960s -- Peru: Decline of the Oligarchy -- The Insurgency of the 1960s -- The Latin "Nasserites" -- Venezuela: The Birth of Democracy -- The Comandantes -- Leoni's "Pacification" -- The Party's Over -- What About Cuba? -- The 1960s and 1970s: Cuba in the International Arena -- The Distant Ally -- The Revolution and the Priests -- Cuba in the 1970s -- In the International Arena -- Together in Africa -- The United States and Cuba -- With the Nonaligned Nations -- Mariel -- The Party's Over -- The Wars Within -- The Southern Cone and the National Security Doctrine -- Argentina: Dictatorship and Insurgency -- Peron Materializes -- Ascension, Passion, and Death of Peron -- Isabel on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- The Kingdom of the "Disappeared" -- The Ugly Little War -- Epilogue to a Horror Story -- Alfonsin and the Military Caste -- A Military Heart Attack -- Chaos -- Menem: A Pardon and a Forgetting -- Brazil Under Its "Own" Doctrine -- The Birth of Democratization -- Brazilian Sub-Imperialism -- Uruguay and Its "Internal War" -- Where the General Rules, Bordaberry Does Not -- A "Protected" Democracy? -- Chile: The Military Takeover -- Allende -- And Pinochet -- "God Placed Me in Power" -- The Road To Democracy -- The Party's Over -- Reagan's Wars -- The Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America -- "Inventing" a Policy -- Lighting the Wick -- Costa Rica in the Game -- The Occupation of Honduras -- The Dirty War -- Nicaragua and the "Secret" War -- Preparing for the War -- The "Resurrection" -- Of "War" and Peace -- Contadora: Sounding the Alarm -- The "Fighters" on the Attack -- The Contras' Terrorism -- Terrorism USA -- The "Circus Owner" -- The Sandinistas on the Attack -- The Church on the Attack -- Raising the Tone -- The "War's" Death Rattle -- The Calvary of Peace -- The Collapse of "His War" -- El Salvador's Way of the Cross -- The People's War -- The Advent of "Democracy" -- Losing the War? -- Duarte for the Presidency -- The Cost of Peace -- The Invasion of Grenada -- The Official Story -- International Disgust -- Five Years Later -- The Party's Over -- Panama: "Dead Man Walking ..." -- Autopsy of the Invasion -- A Pact with the Devil -- The "Strongmen" -- Reagan: Weeding Out Noriega -- The Crisis Begins -- An Orgy of "Vendettas" -- The Itinerary of a Fiasco -- The Last Tango -- Mr. Bush Goes to War -- The Bull's Eye: Noriega -- The OAS in Its Labyrinth -- The "Rambos" -- Attempts at "Damage Control" -- "Just Cause" -- We All "Deplore" It -- The Panamanian "Puppets" -- The Tiger Hunt -- The Party's Over -- The Hurricane over Cuba -- Cuba, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the World -- Dangerous Liaisons -- A Dirty War -- To the Beat of Their Drum -- Reagan in His Nightmare -- The "Vendetta" -- The Unbearable Brevity of Perestroika -- The Distant Ally -- Rectification is Not Perestroika -- Gorby in Havana -- Dracula's Kiss -- Requiem for the Soviet Union -- Blows from the Empire -- Christ Turns His Back -- The Crisis of the Embassies -- Changing Times -- The Home Stretch -- The Glee of the Anti-Castroites -- The "Vendetta" Continues -- Fidel's "Contras" -- The Gypsy's Curse -- Latin America "Solidarity" -- Long Hot Summer -- The Cessna Incident -- The Party's Over -- Epilogue: The End of History?

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